Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
2 | I asked him for some bread and cheese , and he went down to the kitchen . ’ |
3 | Yes , I know how we got talking to this girl in the Post Office cos I erm I asked her for some stamps as well , you see , I wanted some cos I happen to be sending stuff of for Germany tomorrow . |
4 | comment if I asked you for some advice ? |
5 | I made it from old aluminium tent-poles , some of which I had found in the attic a long time previously and some I had got from the town dump . |
6 | I sold them for fifteen pounds . |
7 | ‘ I got them in some shop in Covent Garden . |
8 | I got it for six months , te |
9 | Well I got it from that travel agents |
10 | Mm , we went in that , we went and got me barm cakes and a bit , a few veg and that , went , oh I bought Li Joanne a little set of er instead of an Easter egg , it 's quite nice , I got it from that shop , you know erm next to Kingston and Hutch |
11 | No I tried it on smaller needles |
12 | ‘ I found him in great spirits . |
13 | I found them in those dawn hours . |
14 | I , I found it with utmost ease . |
15 | ‘ I found you at first light this morning , ’ he said , getting up to take her half-empty plate . |
16 | His wound was covered lightly with a shell dressing , and I moved it to one side to have a look . |
17 | I caught him by cute observation ; |
18 | ‘ I approached it with some trepidation but the satisfaction of passing was immense , ’ he said . |
19 | I just knew I was inspired when I proposed you for this job here , that it would come back to me in some incredible way . |
20 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
21 | I referred him to various people who knew his father , including one or two working in the Eastern European section of MI6 at the time . ’ |
22 | And I says , it 's an old lake dwelling , and er of course I mentioned it to this chap , just switch it off the now . |
23 | I told her of that woman novelist who made a character in Provence ladle out onion soup , followed by bouillabaisse for luncheon , and in summer too . |
24 | I do n't know bloody well like me , because I told her off one day , told her where to bloody go to . |
25 | Oh dear , I told them at one point why we did , and I 've had it |
26 | And I told them about this job I 'd done here . |
27 | I told him about Bad Money — another short , no big deal . |
28 | And unfortunately , I told him in graphic detail , and thereby of course , lost a contract , because he turned out to be the most senior person in the room , and he did not enjoy being humiliated in that way . |
29 | I told him in great detail . |
30 | A voice from the wall beside him said : ‘ Would you understand if I told you about molecular breakdown and reassembly from a wide range of raw materials ? ’ |